SPAWN Office Hours #121
Pirate hours every Thursday from 6pm-7pm BST or 7-8pm CET onwards. Get over here with your comments, questions and support.
Last week I posted SPAWN to the web only and no one got the email as there was none. After two months of back to back poetry and song title poetry challenges, I thought of releasing pressure of the inboxes you all have. We’re here for our weekly writing community! Here for you to check in and let us know what you’re up to and how you’re doing.
Here’s one of my latest podcast episode:
NaPoWriMo
Greedy winter Greedy winter lingers With snowy winds and thunders Sky greyed a monochrome wonder White diagrams its only decor A rare phenomenon They call you thundersnow Thunder’s gonna wear White wedding snow Your dress that will distract and disappear as you lower the hem When it will melt in front of your eyes To…
Welcome to SPAWN, Substack Pirate After Work Network. We’re here on Thursdays 6pm BST UK, 7pm CET. For those who are unable to join live, post a question out of hours and tick the box to have it on Notes so you get more chances for an answer.
If you’re here for the first time introduce yourself. Ideally, answer questions from others and engage with newcomers and veteran stackers.
I’ll start us off with a few questions/tasks for today’s SPAWN:
1). How do you check if you accurately have described a sound or a flavour in your writing?
2). Share a post or article from another substack that you read this past week and liked. Tell us what you liked about it.
3). Summer holiday time! Have you booked? Where are you off to and what are the top three things that are important when you pick destination and accommodation.
SPAWN has its own section on my publication. You can access all previous sessions with a wealth of resources, hands on information, hacks and tips from writers and creatives who’ve been doing what they do for a long while. Posts older than two weeks get archived and are fully accessible to paid members.
SPAWN is Office Hours and hang out with Writer Pilgrim by So Elite and our lovely crew. We’ll talk all things Substack that we love or don’t understand. The floor is always open to your questions and invite your subscribers and followers here too.
Another regular feature on my publication is the monthly Song Title poetry first Friday of the month and the weekly Prompt Station with a writing prompt released every Tuesday. And look at my podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds that now includes videos too of London’s hidden amazing places, poetry and interviews with some super amazing artists. I hope you join for those too.
We are live for an hour and many stay for longer. Mostly, we chat about writing and Substacking; we celebrate each other’s successes and find new readers and subscribers in the process. Before we go on to this week’s SPAWN here’s what we did last week and make sure you check the comments as there are some useful resources in there:
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Comment about what’s been eating you on Substack and what’s been good this week. Share your questions and achievements and socialise with us.
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Hi everyone!
Happy Thursday to you all!
So this week, over at the 'House of Haiku', we've been talking about 'roller coasters'. You can find out more about that here: https://chrisjfranklin.substack.com/p/house-of-haiku-prompt-roller-coaster/comments
Anyway, on to the questions... How do you use sounds and flavours in your writing? Those kind of sense memories are hugely important in writing, for sure, and can definitely add realism. Particularly aromas. Capturing how they make you feel, and the places you associate them with, are what readers are going to connect with and find familiarity in. Like the warming scent of gingerbread and cinnamon in winter, or the refreshing scent of cut grass in spring. And similarly, with sounds and flavours, the key thing that is going to bring them to life is describing them in a familiar and relatable way.
What Posts have you enjoyed reading this week? Well, I've been reading some of the other Posts that were submitted for the 'Upon Our Seas...' project, and I've been enjoying them a lot. It's been fun to see the different takes on the Prompt people have come up with, and the wide range of 'gifts' everyone has bestowed on their characters has been very intriguing, too.
Have you booked a summer holiday yet? Not yet. Although, it's getting hotter here again, and they say the temperatures will be higher than the Caribbean next week. So that's going to be like being in Barbados. Without the expense! Haha... 😎
https://substack.com/@carohenry/note/c-277953358?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I loved this micro from Caro this week.
Just got back from a drivable vaca which is a main criterion these days. Living in FL I refuse to fly to a beach. Plus you can overpack the trunk!